My two nieces

Hi,

I want to share something that happened to me yesterday. We celebrated Easter yesterday at our house, as my oldest daughter came home from University for the weekend + needs to be on a 7 pm bus back to school today. Several family members were here to celebrate. I have lost most of my hair from irenotecan, but it started to grow back + in February my oldest daughter cut what little was left of my longer hair to give me a uniform length. I usually put a scarf on when company is over, but my head started to get warm yesterday. Two of my nieces, ages 6 + 3 1/2 were over, + they had not seen me with my very short hair. I told my sister I wanted to take my scarf off but wouldn't if it would "scare" the kids. She said she didn't think they would be scared, but there might be questions. I took off the scarf, + a few minutes later, the 6 year old came in + sat on the sofa beside me. She looked at me + asked "why is your hair so short?" I said "I have had some special medicine + it caused my hair to fall out, but it is starting to grow back + it is really soft, would you like to feel it?" "Yes" she said, "Oh it is soft!" Her little sister came into the room too + I saw her whispering to her mom + looking at me. The next thing I knew she was on the sofa too. A few minutes later, the 6 year old said "I think I'd like really short hair!" (her hair is waist-length now). How sweet! Then my brother (her uncle) said to her "I can do that, where are the scissors?" My poor niece! She said "Oh, I was just kidding". Before she left, she said quietly "I hope your hair grows back". I said to her "Thanks, I hope so too". My husband, 2 daughters + I talked about this after. My 21 year old said "the great thing about that age is they are curious but not judgemental". How true. And how I felt the support in my battle from my family, even my 6 year old niece. I loved being with my family, + hope any + all of you who celebrate Easter have a wonderful one as I had/am having. And if you don't celebrate Easter, I hope you have wonderful times with family+/or friends as I did yesterday!